Hermione felt her head move with violent jerking air pulling from her lungs. her body was pushed and pulled before landing on solid ground she gasped as air returned to her taking large gasps. Her instincts told her to look around to find Harry and Ron to make sure they were safe but her body had different ideas curling in on itself and puking out the little liquid she had.
Her body was still in so much pain. Even with her mind telling her all the things she should be doing she couldn't move, her body just reacted to the trauma that it had gone through. She was sore and shaking. Her arm still burning and stinging like the knife was still digging into her. Her bones and Musscels tighten and jerk in spasms from the Crucio curse. She felt arms around her pulling her up to her feet. She was able to move her head enough to see it was Ron he was taking her somewhere, but where was Harry? She used what strength she had to force her head back to look behind her and she was able to make out figures a bit away. who she wasn't able to quite place, was that Luna and Dean? there were others but they didn't matter when her eyes landed on Harry! he was Kneeling on the ground was he hurt?
Harry looked so small, cradling something. She tried to turn her body back so she could try and help but Ron kept his hold on her tight. Before she was able to try and tell him that Harry was still back there and that they had to go back she heard other voices. Before she knew it she was in the soft slim arms of Fleur. what was she doing here? Again before she could ask any questions she was shuffled here and there her head was pounding everything seemed to be spinning. Her stomach tried to wrench out more from her body but nothing came out there wasn't anything left it hurt so much it felt like her stomach was trying to force its way out of her body.
She felt Flure rubbing her back telling her she was ok. Hermione wanted to believe that, she wanted to be ok so very bad she started sobbing after another dry heave. She felt the warmth from Fleur as she wrapped her arms around her giving her a comfort Hermione hadn't felt in months. Hermione fell asleep being cradled by the older woman, well she assumes she fell asleep because the next thing she knew she woke in a bed an actual bed at Bills and Flures cottage. She sat in the bed just watching out the window as waves came in and out. Until the door opened breaking her from her trance she looked and saw Ron come in carrying a tray with soup and tea. She felt a few tears fall when his face broke into a warm smile.
Hermione sat at the table with everyone finally well enough that she was able to move freely again without having to rest. she made her regular excursies walking down to Dobby's grave and conjuror flowers. she would walk the beach and when she got tired she would sit and knit. She wanted to give Dobby one last gift to put on his grave but it was such a rush job and her hands were so shaky. they were such ugly and sloppy socks. Ron had told her he would have loved it. but she still wished she could have done better. She wished she had her bag but that was gone along with everything in it. all she had left was her wand and clothes. though she had been wearing Fleurs as the women cleaned and fixed hers. Fleur had said she could take and have whatever clothes she wanted. But Hermione really wanted her clothes. She did take a bag from her though she had been enchanting it like her old one so she would be able to store all of their things in it.
Harry was ready to head out for their next mission and she refused to be left behind. They were figuring out the last few details of their plan to break into Gringotts. Harry was certain that one of the Horcruxes was there. At this point, she couldn't really argue she didn't want to argue. with the new information they got and his visions in Voldemort's mind, she was sure they must be on the right track. She just wished that it wasn't this crazy plan to try and break into the most secure building in Wizziard England.
Hermione looked over at the cauldrons brewing on the other side of the room. The polyjuice would be done in two days then they would go on this impossible mission. She was also brewing other potions she was going to take this time to stock up on as many healing potions as she could as well as some dreamless drought. She had been screaming in her sleep these past couple of weeks and she couldn't have that. She also wanted some for Harry in case he wanted or needed to block out Voldemort from his mind.
She listened to Bill try and convince Harry not to trust Griphook. She didn't like that his only real argument was that he was a Goblin and couldn't be trusted. She didn't want to believe that racist stereotype about his kind. And even if he was like that she hoped that his hate for Voldemort and the death eaters would make him want to help them more than his want for old gobline-made tressures.
Herminoe hand went to her arm it was hurting again. Despite the pain relief potion she had taken earlier. She tried to keep her fingers away from the area where her scar was. Fleur had talked to her about it. since it was made with a knife that had dark magic. She would never be able to heal it completely nor would she be able to remove it. not without removing the skin it was on. not only that but there would always be some kind of stinging from it, mostly just a dull pain but it would be there. A continent reminder of how and why she got it.
The crazy shrill voice the knee pressing on her chest making it harder to breathe than it already was as the knife was slowly sliced repeatedly on her arm. The smell of blood. the dark room's hard floor that the back of her head had been bashed on. Green and gray eyes watching her. Hermione felt her throat tighten as she was beginning to fall back into that time fear filled her as she squeezed her eyes shut. She felt a hand on her shoulder and opened her eyes to look over to Ron a worried expression on his face.
" do you need me to rebadge it?" Ron asked she gave him a smile shaking her head. She let out a breath seeing the warm room around her. white, blue, and light brown colors all around the smell of salt and clam stew on the stove. She was okay she was safe. she told him she was good. Ron nodded and they continued their briefing of their plan Ron had moved his hand from her shoulder and instead held on to her hand under the table keeping her grounded.
Draco sat in the common room his head was spinning just a little, he over did it on the dust he knew he shouldn't have but he couldn't help it after what had happened over break. when he saw her sprawled on his floor like that, her face. it was in so much pain and fear but it also looked far away and distant like she wasn't there. it made him think of a carved statue. His aunt didn't only torture her she carved Mudblood into her arm her wand arm.
After it had all happened and the rest of his family learned about all of the escapes his home pretty much went on lockdown. His aunt wasn't even leaving it anymore she actually looked scared. He left the day after he couldn't be there he spent the remainder of the break at the leaky cauldron. His mother didn't want him to leave but he couldn't be around her. not after what she had done even if she didn't know it.
Draco was still a bit fucked up from the night before. He had woken to find a girl from his year in his bed Arya, Anna, something like that he didn't remember the night so why remember the girl? When he got up he kicked her out and told his elf to clean his room after a shower he decided he didn't want to be in his room anymore so he went to the common room to wait and sober up. He heard a commotion as a few Slythrins came into the common room he looked over and saw some of them holding the daily prophet.
" who keeps a dragon in their vault are they mad, what if it had completely destroyed the whole building? my family's money is in there." He heard one boy complain
" yes yes, your poor money but look see I swear there are people on it just look." A girl said aggressively pointing to the paper. Draco tried to think, he knew this was important but his head wasn't clear enough to remember why.
"Who do you think was crazy enough to break into Gingrotts and who did they steal from?" he heard the group talking as they moved about the room " I bet it was a rescue mission by one of the Dragon sanctuaries they're the only one crazy enough to actually do something like this."
Later when his head had cleared he left to go attend a class or two to give him something to do and hopefully distract him. it didn't help much he was completely lost since he had barely attended any classes since the school year started. He ended up giving up halfway through the day. it seemed Pansy had found out that he had some girl in his bed this morning and was making a fuss. He didn't want to deal with that he didn't even know why she thought it was her business. To avoid her and everyone else as much as possible he decided to just walk the halls not having anything else really to do.
While roaming he saw Blaise and Theo the two were looking at the prophet Theo was smiling actually smiling. Was he that happy to read about chaos that wasn't caused by death eaters? Theo looked up seeming to notice Draco's stare his smile dropped saying bye to Blaise. Draco watched the dark-haired boy levitate a large stake of the newspaper behind him as he briskly walked away. Why the hell did he have so many was he handing them out?
Blaise gave him a wave and Draco took that as an invite that it was ok to come on over. They talked a bit but Blaise seemed to direct any topic to small talk. When Draco brought up the paper Blaise just smirked and said that he was sure that at least one of them knew someone who had experience riding a Dragon. When Draco didn't really react at all Blaise tried asking if he was doing ok. Trying to talk about Draco's new pass time without actually saying it.
Draco stared at nothing for a moment before shaking his head. His friend pressed his lip in concern but Draco just shrugged he preferred this not quit having a clear head being in a light hazy fog. It was better than remembering the screams and mangled body of the woman he loved. thoughts of how much she must hate him. Draco found his way to his room after hanging with Blaise for a bit longer. on opening the door the smell of Dawn's Beauty hit him. he told his elf to rotate Herminoe's perfume and lavender oil to scent his room. he closed the door leaning against it closing his eyes and fingered his ring that had stayed cold and still for almost a year now.
Hermione ate her soup with Ron. Alberforth had told them to wait here and not make a mess or noise. His sister's portrait was still empty it had been almost an hour now. they had tried to sneak into Hogwarts but the second they landed foot in Hogmeade alarms went off and snatchers flooded the street. sending them running that is until a Patronus of a goat showed up saving them and leading them here.
" Harry you should eat." She tried again he just shook his head as he paced the room he was not taking learning another one of Dumbledore's secrets well. She had to admit she had read many books about the man but none of them really went into his family. So to learn he had, had a sister and a still-living brother was a surprise not to mention he lived literally so close to Hogwarts running the Boar's head.
" mate you really should it pretty good, didn't know this place even had food, to be honest," Ron said in between bites. Harry just shook his head again saying he was fine. He wasn't, she saw the dark bags under his eyes and how he seemed to be fading slightly somehow. Like life was literally draining out of him.
All their heads snapped up when three knocks came from the portrait. She and Ron stood flanking Harry on both sides wands out. She almost dropped her wand when Nevil's head popped out. he looked so different he had grown so much he was taller his hair a little longer and she was sure he was a bit more good looking but it was hard to tell past the black eye split lip and bruising on his face. He gave each of them a hug smiling looking excited and relieved he told them that this passage led to Hogwarts and it was where he and a lot of others had been getting their food.
Aberforth had come back up to join them. when Nevil talked about how Alberforth had been helping him. The old man just gruffed and waved them off saying he had things to do before going back downstairs. Hermione wasn't sure how to feel about the older man. Nevil led them through the tunnel asking questions and giving them a rundown of what had been going on at Hagworts. how the school quickly became unsafe for many whether they were causing trouble or not. He told them about how he ended up in the room of requirements and how he had been getting help from all sorts of places some very unexpected.
He had told them that the Death Eaters had tried to keep him in line by kidnapping his grans but the old woman was too good a witch to get caught by such weakiling. She dealt with them then high-tailed it out of there and into hiding. Nevil didn't seem concerned at all if anything his voice only held pride.
When they finally made it to the door Herminoe was shocked to find what was on the other side. The room was large and packed full of students the house banners hanging from the walls. Nevil called out and all heads turned to them. in a second they were swarmed. Everybody talking and yelling over each other. Herminoe saw Ginny pushing her way to the front of the crowd but Ginny only seemed focused on Harry. She looked over and saw that Harry to was only focused on Ginny. She then saw Ron give an excited wave to his sister but then realized that she wasn't paying him any attention he huffed crossed his arms and mumbled under his breath about how she hadn't seen her brother in months but yeah sure at least Harrys' here. She laughed a bit at that bumping her shoulder to his. She scanned over the excited crowd again and that was when she saw a pale face with black hair and blue eyes. THEO!